Kevin McDowell Biography
Kevin E. McDowell, a naturally gifted artist, has been drawing since the age of five. He has received his B.F.A from the School of Visual Arts in New York in 1988 but didn’t come out on to the art scene until 1990. This may have been contributed to the fact that after completing my study at a prestigious four year art school.
"I felt the need to invent my self. Between the two years after finishing college I began to explore the nuances of visual art with more precision. During time off from work I would stroll through the galleries of SoHo were I could rethink about my creative processes, technique and genre".
Art school was good for what it offered and he realized that the mechanisms there were geared towards a commercial output of art. This is were He pick up some business sense to the art world. Before his exposure he would freelance in the industry as an artist. he had assisted well accomplished artist Bill Charmatz with illustrated presentations for the accounting firm Price Waterhouse in 1985 and assisted designers at Corporate Annual Reports in New York.
His experience landed him a position as a production assistant in 1987 for Alvin H. Perlmutter, producer of the Emmy Award winning show ADAM SMITHS’ MONEY WORLD for PBS Television in New York. With accomplishments in the industry one factor lingered in his mind as an artist. The lacking opportunities for free creative expression almost didn’t exist in his world. his debut as an artist was at an Expo at the Javits Center in New York in 1990 where he had gone by my artist name (KEM).
He premiered his art work in the form of buttons and wearable art sportswear. He then realized that there was a market for his work with its style of vivid colors and animated expressions. In 1992, he attended the Print shop of master printer Bob Blackburn, where he studied the basics of lithography and block printing. "I have done well with Gallery showcases in the south" (KEM) stated, particularly in the state of Georgia where he resided for five years between 1996 to 2001 and had relocated back to his home town of Brooklyn New York in 2001. At this point in his career, he shifted his gears somewhat towards the realm of education and became a visual arts instructor in New York City public schools.
